The Power of the Portrait:
Portraits, Self Portraits and Identity
Experiment with different layouts and designs.
Use black and white and colour, text, illustration, double exposure etc.
Planning your Personal Investigation for
Critical and Contextual Studies
Your Personal Investigation - 60% of your final grade.
Year 13 emphasis in this early stage is on building skills that can be revisited and explored in future units. If its got curiosity stamped all over it we will encourage you to explore it further.
You will devise with guidance your own programme of study based on a chosen theme. You to focus and build on your strengths as you plan an ambitious exploration of photography in all its alternative forms. Within this investigation you are required to complete a Related Study.
Course breakdown &
Assessment objectives
You will work on this until January 2021
Your Related study -
Is an essay of between 1000-3000 words. It must be Harvard referenced and have a bibliography.
Choose something you are genuinely interested in......
It is an investigation that should be sustained and be around 1000 -3000 words long . How do you plan to present your personal study... Don't just produce an essay...a weak submission in the format of an essay will come across as an after thought and last minute.
​Your writing should reflect your creative nature: Provide subtle insights into your thinking, provoke interest; tempt curiosity. Use quotes and challenging questions to engage the reader.
Plan your study by coming up with a question or an enquiry to help you focus the point to your study.
The best way to do this is to pick a genre or particular subject matter that you find inspiring and develop this into a question or enquiry…
Example Related Study
How to Harvard reference
As you did for your Photography Personal Investigation you must write a Statement of Intent
Create a word document of 500 words that gives a detailed outline of the subject you would like to explore further and how you will investigate it.
You must address the following questions:
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Which topic would you like to explore?
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Are there a Genres/Techniques/Artists you have studied so far that will be included?
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What will your final outcome be:
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Poster/Awareness Campaign, Magazine article, Advertising campaign etc.
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How will you use different design elements in your work?Formal elements such as colour, tone, texture, shape and form in relation to your chosen topic.
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Who is your possible target audience?
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How will ideas, feelings and meanings can be conveyed and interpreted in the images you create?
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How does your enquiry link to contemporary social issues?
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Ensure you are:
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selecting and using materials such as web-based research, gallery or site visits, books, journals, and other relevant resources
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selecting, interpreting and scrutinising research material with the use of relevant subject terminology
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understanding and using conventions when interpreting the impact/effect of social, religious and cultural contexts and local and global trends
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undertaking critical analysis to ascertain and discuss appropriate historical, social and political contexts
Possible area(s) of Critical and Contextual
Study. Choose one from the list below or find one of your own.
Combinations of these areas are also possible:
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•How is the Human form represented
•Architecture and the Built environment
• Intervention in the Environment
•Curating Exhibitions - creating a narrative.
•Art Management and Art in the community.
•Cultural representations within Photography.
•Multi-media, emerging technologies and their use in Photography.